Pyrography is the art of burning wood.
You take a tool like a soldering iron, heat it up and start the burning process.
But first you have to find wood that burns well with a fine grain, like Basswood.
Then you find a pattern that you want to burn on it.
What I do is look around for a pattern, in books, magazines or on the internet. I tape a piece of carbon paper over the wood, then tape the pattern over that, and with a hard pencil start tracing. When finished remove the pattern and carbon paper and start the burning process.
After a while, depending on the size of the pattern, it’s all burned in.
Next, I use water color pencils and fill it in. You can then brush it with water or leave it if it looks all right.
Next I spray two or three coats of polyurethane over it all.
The above dragon was on a box I gave to my sister-in-law for Christmas.
This is just a simple butterfly, one of my first efforts.
Here is a mandala which usually represents the cosmos.
This is a thick piece of Basswood.
I made a lot of cats for my wife.
A lot of little pieces had to be burned in.
My wife’s Valentine gift.